HIGHLIGHTS – THE EAST MIDLANDS

Top A closed fire station forecourt is now a car park Above and below Two views of Nottingham city centre

Above A pub and a statue commemorating historical and fictitious rebellions; it is said students often make off with Robin Hood’s arrow

Above Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, ‘the oldest inn in England’, which backs into castle rock

Above A billboard advertising the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 Bladerunner, atop the Victoria Centre  

Above The British Geological Survey at Keyworth

Above Banner advertising for the Luxury Asian Wedding Show in Leicester Below A mosque

BelowThe approach to Melton Turn on Leicester’s Golden Mile

Below A Daily Mail sponsored newsagent on a parade of shops in Grantham, Lincolnshire

AboveA residential property on the main road to Lincoln, and the approach to a stately home

Above Two motorbikes; the owner of this high specification, electric power-assisted bicycle – an experienced motorcyclist – believes such light vehicles are the future

Above Lincoln Cathedral

Above School children return home on Eastgate; the Lincolnshire standard is flying above them

Above The view from an architect-designed private residence

Above For Sale boards at the roadside  

Above Poverty – in one of its guises – in Lincoln

Above The most familiar sight associated with centralised electricity generation and distribution : pylons carrying power lines, here across field systems along a road to the Fens

Above Steve and his fry up in the Sentry Post snack bar at RAF Waddington

AboveA Vulcan bomber, long out of service, designed to carry nuclear bombs